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‪RKO 281 (1999): Citizen Kane is one of the gaps in my movie watching history that I really need to rectify. At 86 minutes this feels a bit rushed, considering it covers not only the creation of the film but the battle to have it released. Pretty good.‬

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August 5, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Here's my new drawing of John Malkovich for tonight's presentation of RKO 281!

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June 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“For the moment we are free. No one can tell us what to say or how to say it”

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June 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Davis’ ambition mirrors Orson’s. Both will have to come to terms with whether it was wasted or not.

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June 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Damnit, Liev Schreiber, why you make Melanie Griffith cry?

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June 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Maybe Orson should be more afraid of accountants

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June 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Marion Davies would end up selling all her jewelry to help Hearst out on his debts.

His family refused to allow her to attend the funeral in 1951

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June 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Cromwell manages to balance real menace and deep insecurity in his portrayal of Hearst

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June 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Why do I suspect that Orson Wells was lying about his father?

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June 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Enjoy it, Orson. You’re never gonna have this level of money and creative freedom again.

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June 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
NOW they’re tearing up the floor ?!

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June 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The pig got the prize

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June 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Mank would get the ultimate revenge on that screenplay credit

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June 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Wait... wait... Orson Wells decided to attack William Randolph Hearst, a guy who allegedly shot someone dead and had ot covered up, by making a movie about a super rich guy who dies? 🤦‍♂️

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June 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Craig is not a great syllable

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June 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I recommend reading Bogdanovich’s This Is Orson Welles and Simon Callie’s Welles biographies on our subject tonight

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June 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Mank’s yacht story here is somewhat related in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow with Kirsten Dunst and Edward Herman

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June 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Good thing Mank was already planning a book on Hearst.

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June 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Orson hasn’t quite reached Hitch’s level of anxiety eating - yet.

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June 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Executive Producers Tony Scott and Ridley Scott!

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June 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It's free for me because I pay for #hbo. 👍

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June 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Welles spent a good deal of time developing Heart of Darkness with him as Kurtz and the camera always in Marlowe’s first person perspective but it failed to gain speed

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June 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I don’t think Liev quite captures Welles in the same way Vincent D’Onofrio in Ed Wood or Tom Burke did in Mank but he gets across a determined intellect nonetheless

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June 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The death of his mother at a young age left an indelible mark on young Orson Welles

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June 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM